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There goes another Main Street business

Sentinel & Enterprise

Updated:
07/28/2014 06:31:37 AM EDT

Wow! Main Street Café moving -- well, there is another blow to unresolved efforts to revitalize our Main Street with viable and working businesses. Mayor Lisa Wong's comments seem rather matter-of-fact, sort of like abandoning City Hall and saying, "Oh well!"

So now what happens? Does the city administration actively and courageously address the parking issue and how fast people are ticketed if the meter runs out?

Where is the plan to renovate and reoccupy that stately City Hall? How can you ask people to "set up shop" on Main Street when projected attitudes seem to be "Oh, well."

Let's get moving on the economic-development director project, and an office that actively recruits and encourages established businesses on Main Street to stay, expand and innovate, and for new ones to open.

Resolve some parking issues, and figure out what the plan is for City Hall. Work with the landlords to get some small businesses in the empty storefronts. What about the the planned Cultural District designation?

I frequent City Hall Café often, because of its location on Main Street, close to the library, bank, Senior Center and Rollstone Studios, where I am a consignment artist. I wish the Karanasioses success in their new location and wish someone had stepped in from our city government to try to solve the problems -- and help them stay.

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